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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          Alhart E. Speelman was born in Green county, Pennsylvania,
       September 25, 1817.  He was married in Fayette county of the
       same State, in 1844, to ELIZABETH ISHERWOOD who was burn in
       Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1819. In 1855 they
       came to Iowa and settled five miles east of Marion, in Linn county,
       and lived there seven years. They removed to Jones county in 1862,
       where they owned a farm. In 1869 they came to this county and bought
       a farm of eighty acres in section 13, of Bear Grove, where they now
       live. They have two children — JOHN W. and NORA.

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